This commit update the contributing documents with the
new IRC server and remove the old freenode.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Currently ref lookups require loading the entire packed-refs file into
a hashmap in memory. For repos with large numbers of refs this can be
painfully slow.
This patch replaces the existing lookup code and instead mmap()'s the
packed-refs file and performs a binary search to locate the ref entry.
Git uses a similiar approach.
The old hash table codepath is still used for unsorted packed-refs files.
This patch also fixes a minor bug where the "peeled" trait is never
parsed correctly from the packed-refs header.
Threading can now be disabled with `USE_THREADS=OFF` instead of
`THREADSAFE=OFF` to better support the other cmake semantics.
Nanosecond support is the default _if_ we can detect it. This should be
our default always - like threads - and people can opt out explicitly.
Commit 4ae41f9c63 made `git_odb`
race-free, and added internal locking. Update `docs/threading.md`
accordingly, so that APIs built atop libgit2 (e.g. language bindings)
can count on this.
in #6083 the test runner was renamed to libgit2_tests,
but not all references to the old name were updated.
this change changes all of them to use the new name.
We have been inconsistent about the way that we handle `git_buf`s
provided by users. _Usually_ we require that it has been properly
initialized with `GIT_BUF_INIT`, but _sometimes_ we simply overwrite
the data in it regardless. And even more rarely, we will grow a
user-provided buffer and concatenate data onto it (see
`git_diff_format_email`).
Document the path forward for `git_buf`, which is that we always
require that the buffer is intitialized with `GIT_BUF_INIT`.
`git_diff_format_email` will be kept backward compatible but users
are encouraged to switch to the new `git_email` APIs.
For years, we've repeatedly had confusion about what our actual coding
style is not only for newcomers, but also across the core contributors.
This can mostly be attributed to the fact that we do not have any coding
conventions written down. This is now a thing of the past with the
introduction of a new document that gives an initial overview of our
style and most important best practices for both our C codebase as well
as for CMake.
While the proposed coding style for our C codebase should be rather
uncontroversial, the coding style for CMake might be. This can be
attributed to multiple facts. First, the CMake code base doesn't really
have any uniform coding style and is quite outdated in a lot of places.
Second, the proposed coding style actually breaks with our existing one:
we currently use all-uppercase function names and variables, but the
documented coding style says we use all-lowercase function names but
all-uppercase variables.
It's common practice in CMake to write variables in all upper-case, and
in fact all variables made available by CMake are exactly that. As
variables are case-sensitive in CMake, we cannot and shouldn't break
with this. In contrast, function calls are case insensitive, and modern
CMake always uses all-lowercase ones. I argue we should do the same to
get in line with other codebases and to reduce the likelihood of
repetitive strain injuries.
So especially for CMake, the proposed coding style says something we
don't have yet. I'm fine with that, as the document explicitly says that
it's what we want to have and not what we have right now.
Give the release a name, "Torschlusspanik" (the fear that time is
running out to act). Indeed, the time is running out for changes to be
included in v1.0.
When the failure is clearly an auth failure
(as opposed to possibly an auth failure),
use the error code GIT_EAUTH instead of GIT_ERROR.
While we're here, fix a typo and improve an error message.
Fixes#5389.
I encountered some problematic URLs,
and was delighted to see that they were already fixed.
I figured I may as well add them to the changelog.
For the record, URLs with no path used to be rejected.
That is arguably correct, but command line git accepts them.
URLs with a path of / and a non-standard port
used to have their port completely ignored!
The interactions between `USE_HTTPS` and `SHA1_BACKEND` have been
streamlined. Previously we would have accepted not quite working
configurations (like, `-DUSE_HTTPS=OFF -DSHA1_BACKEND=OpenSSL`) and, as
the OpenSSL detection only ran with `USE_HTTPS`, the link would fail.
The detection was moved to a new `USE_SHA1`, modeled after `USE_HTTPS`,
which takes the values "CollisionDetection/Backend/Generic", to better
match how the "hashing backend" is selected, the default (ON) being
"CollisionDetection".
Note that, as `SHA1_BACKEND` is still used internally, you might need to
check what customization you're using it for.
